Tag: Verizon
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The FREE Streaming Service go90 Strikes Content Deal with Warner Bros.
Verizon’s free streaming service go90 announced yesterday a deal with Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. to add more content. This deal will give go90 access to several Warner Bros. Entertainment series including Almost Human, Babylon 5, Believe, Fringe, Stalker, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Veronica Mars. Many of these shows have only been available to buy on…
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Verizon to Launch a Sling TV Competitor This Summer
First this week we learned that Comcast is planning to launch a live TV streaming service this year. Now it is reported that Verizon is also planning to launch a live TV streaming service this summer. Bloomberg reported yesterday that Verizon Communications Inc. has been securing streaming rights from television network owners for a nationwide launch…
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CBS Strikes New Content Deal with Verizon & Hulu
This week CBS CEO Leslie Roy Moonves announced during its earnings call that it now has new deals with Verizon and Hulu. The new Verizon deal covers CBS and CW stations along with Showtime and other cable networks and was “on terms consistent with our long term target of achieving $2.5 billion of annual retrans…
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Verizon Just Made It Easier to Stream Your Content
Being able to stream anything you want at home and on the road has been the dream of many cord cutters for years. Now Verizon is joining T-Mobile and Sprint to offer an unlimited streaming option. Yesterday Verizon officially brought back an unlimited data plan starting at $80 a month if you sign up for…
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Verizon & Charter Are in Talks For a Possible Merger
The Wall Street Journal today reported that there maybe a telecom mega-merger in the works. According to a report from WSJ Verizon is eyeing a takeover of Charter Communications. The report claims that Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam has made a “preliminary approach” to Charter executives about such a deal. Yet just because there is a preliminary…
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Verizon is Looking at Buying Comcast or Charter
The consolidation of cable TV may be continuing in 2017 because Verizon is reportedly looking at buying Comcast or Charter. The report first showed up in the New York Post and said Verizon Chief Executive Lowell McAdam is reportedly looking at buying one of the big two cable companies in an effort to counter AT&T’s…
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Verizon Is Testing a 10 Gbps Fiber Service
Verizon, a long-time leader in fiber service in the United States, is now testing a 10 Gbps fiber service that would blow away anything on the market today. Currently the 10 Gbps service is only in the lab, but there are hopes that someday it could hit 40 Gbps down. “When it comes to NG-PON2,…
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CBS, Yahoo, Amazon, Verizon, and Facebook Are All in Talks for NFL Streaming Rights
Recently we heard that NFL and CBS are in talks for streaming rights of NFL games. Now we have confirmation from Facebook that they are also in talks for rights to stream NFL games. There are also reports that Yahoo and the NFL have had high level talks. So what does this mean that CBS,…
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Verizon FiOS Starts Issuing Copyright Notices to Kodi Users
A few days ago we reported that Comcast users who used third-party add-ons to stream movies and TV shows had started to receive copyright notifications. Now we are hearing from Verizon FiOS subscribers that they are also receiving the copyright notifications. It now appears that Comcast was just the quickest to get the notices passed…
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HBO NOW Available Today To Verizon Broadband Customers
HBO NOWSM AVAILABLE TODAY TO VERIZON BROADBAND CUSTOMERS NEW YORK July 28, 2015 – Home Box Office and Verizon announced today a broad agreement that includes the right for Verizon to distribute HBO NOWSM, HBO’s internet-only service, to Verizon digital platforms, including to more than 100 million Verizon Wireless customers and other consumers with handsets…